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… thirteen years back, I saw my house, with all my books and papers, swept away in an hour and a half by fire.’ 2 …
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… Quebec, he was employed by Laurentine and Company, pulp and paper manufacturers, on arduous forestry survey and …
Type: Biography
… Times because of a perceived conflict of interest: her paper supported the Liberal party, Edwin's the opposition. …
Type: Biography
… man to have served more than one year. He contributed many papers to the society's journal and used the annual …
Type: Biography
… the daylight hours, and on 16 October 1895 he presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society advocating … formal education system and wrote outspoken letters to newspapers criticising this and institutionalised science. He …
Type: Biography
… unemployed from New Zealand, and pay them a pound a day (paper currency). The working day in the Kermadecs consists …
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Part of story: Kermadec Islands
… journalism for his living, writing for a variety of labour papers. In 1937 he was elected on a socialist ticket to the …
Type: Biography
… of the Alliance from 1900 to 1909 and editor of its paper, the Prohibitionist , renamed the Vanguard in 1906. … 25,000 copies, the largest circulation of any newspaper in the country. In 1892 Leonard Isitt was found guilty …
Type: Biography
… She was a private person and no significant personal papers survive. It is on terms she herself created – her …
Type: Biography
… and in her darkroom experiment with different printing papers, tones and cropping. Thelma Kent’s photographs were …
Type: Biography
… Andrew Sinclair. Between 1860 and 1884 Knight published 16 papers on lichens, 2 on mosses and 1 each in zoology and …
Type: Biography
… was also managing director of the Wanganui Herald Newspaper Company, and her grandfather, James Duigan, had been editor of the paper when its founder John Ballance was premier of New … made her mark in the male-dominated world of education, newspapers and religion. …
Type: Biography
… Tīwai Point in Southland. During the 1950s, Tasman Pulp and Paper depended on the expertise of foreign firms and had … market was newsprint for Australia, and Australian newspapers and newsprint manufacturers sought to integrate it …
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Part of story: Large companies
… is a simple form of public protest. A letter to a newspaper editor or a politician is an easy way for an … 1841, Wellingtonian A. W. Shand wrote to a local newspaper protesting about the New Zealand Company’s land sales … theatre, with a further 2,000 people turned away. A newspaper reported that a ‘very large section of the audience …
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Part of story: Public protest
… was a mystery. Searching for breeding grounds In a 1923 paper, Danish biologist Johannes Schmidt stated that …
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Part of story: Eels
… term in office and was defeated after a year. One local paper wrote, ‘The glory hath departed Onehunga.’ 2 No other …
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Part of story: Local and regional government
… and the Wheatstone automatic (Morse transcribed as holes on paper tape) were being introduced, and more efficient copper …
Type: Biography
… speech, deportment and manners as well as her examination papers and sewing. There was little that escaped her eagle …
Type: Biography
… tasks, Macdonald inserted an advertisement in a local paper in 1931 pretending to be a servant seeking work. She …
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… The rural mailman also brought food items, parcels and newspapers, and handled money orders and postal notes. Airmail … World War. Aerogrammes, or air letters (light sheets of paper that were folded to form their own envelopes), were …
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Part of story: Mail and couriers